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| Keywords: Flower-of-Life-19circles36arcs-enclosed.svg Most common form of the Flower of Life hexagonal pattern where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter made up of 19 complete circles and 36 partial circular arcs enclosed by a large circle To see a form of the flower of life pattern composed of complete circles only making clear the way in which the pattern is constructed view Image Flower-of-Life-61circles png For a large carpet of the flower of life pattern go to Image Flower-of-Life-91circles36arcs png SVG version of Image Flower-of-Life-19circles36arcs-enclosed png Converted from the following PostScript code <pre> PostScript program to display the flower of life pattern i e hexagonal pattern of intersecting circles where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six other circles Parameters /hexsize 3 def number of circles along each side of hexagon /diam 78 def radius of each circle /linew 1 89 def thickness of each circle Procedures gsave 306 396 change to 297 421 to center on A4 size paper translate 30 rotate linew setlinewidth/j hexsize 1 sub def j neg 1 j /k exch def/y k diam mul 75 sqrt mul def/i j j k abs sub add def gsave i 2 div diam mul neg 0 translate 0 1 i /z exch def z diam mul y diam 0 360 arc stroke z 0 ne z i ne and k j 1 sub eq z diam mul y 2 diam mul 75 sqrt mul add diam 180 360 arc stroke if k j 1 sub neg eq z diam mul y 2 diam mul 75 sqrt mul sub diam 0 180 arc stroke if z 1 eq k 0 ge k j ne and and z 1 5 sub diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul add diam -120 60 arc stroke if z 1 eq k 0 le k j neg ne and and z 1 5 sub diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul sub diam -60 120 arc stroke if z i 1 sub eq k 0 ge k j ne and and z 1 5 add diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul add diam 120 300 arc stroke if z i 1 sub eq k 0 le k j neg ne and and z 1 5 add diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul sub diam 60 240 arc stroke if if z 0 eq k j eq and z 5 sub diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul add diam -120 0 arc stroke if z i eq k j eq and z 5 add diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul add diam -180 -60 arc stroke if z 0 eq k 0 eq and z 1 sub diam mul y diam -60 60 arc stroke if z i eq k 0 eq and z 1 add diam mul y diam 120 240 arc stroke if z 0 eq k j neg eq and z 5 sub diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul sub diam 0 120 arc stroke if z i eq k j neg eq and z 5 add diam mul y 75 sqrt diam mul sub diam 60 180 arc stroke if k j eq z diam mul y diam 3 sqrt mul add diam 240 300 arc stroke if k j neg eq z diam mul y diam 3 sqrt mul sub diam 60 120 arc stroke if k 0 ge z 0 eq and z 1 5 sub diam mul y diam 75 sqrt mul add diam -60 0 arc stroke if k 0 le z 0 eq and z 1 5 sub diam mul y diam 75 sqrt mul sub diam 0 60 arc stroke if k 0 ge z i eq and z 1 5 add diam mul y diam 75 sqrt mul add diam 180 240 arc stroke if k 0 le z i eq and z 1 5 add diam mul y diam 75 sqrt mul sub diam 120 180 arc stroke if for grestore for 0 0 hexsize diam mul 0 360 arc stroke 0 0 hexsize 3 sqrt 12 div add diam mul 0 360 arc stroke grestore showpage EOF</pre> Flower of Life patterns Round graphic ornaments Images with PostScript source code SVG geometry | ||||
